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    In mathematics, the quaternion number system extends the complex numbers. Quaternions were first described by the Irish mathematician William Rowan Hamilton...
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  • Unit quaternions, known as versors, provide a convenient mathematical notation for representing spatial orientations and rotations of elements in three...
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  • quaternion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The quaternions form a number system that extends the complex numbers. Quaternion rotation Quaternion group...
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    The Quaternion Eagle[needs IPA] (German: Quaternionenadler; Italian: aquila quaternione), also known as the Imperial Quaternion Eagle (German: Quaternionen-Reichsadler)...
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  • In mathematics, a Hurwitz quaternion (or Hurwitz integer) is a quaternion whose components are either all integers or all half-integers (halves of odd...
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    In group theory, the quaternion group Q8 (sometimes just denoted by Q) is a non-abelian group of order eight, isomorphic to the eight-element subset {...
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  • In mathematics, a quaternion algebra over a field F is a central simple algebra A over F that has dimension 4 over F. Every quaternion algebra becomes a...
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    In mathematics, quaternions are a non-commutative number system that extends the complex numbers. Quaternions and their applications to rotations were...
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  • Quaternion is a poetry style in which the theme is divided into four parts. Each part of a quaternion explores the complementary natures of the theme...
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    In mathematics, the dual quaternions are an 8-dimensional real algebra isomorphic to the tensor product of the quaternions and the dual numbers. Thus...
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  • angles and unit quaternions. This article explains how to convert between the two representations. Actually this simple use of "quaternions" was first presented...
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  • In abstract algebra, the split-quaternions or coquaternions form an algebraic structure introduced by James Cockle in 1849 under the latter name. They...
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  • Versor (redirect from Unit quaternion)
    In mathematics, a versor is a quaternion of norm one, also known as a unit quaternion. Each versor has the form u = exp ⁡ ( a r ) = cos ⁡ a + r sin ⁡...
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  • In abstract algebra, the algebra of hyperbolic quaternions is a nonassociative algebra over the real numbers with elements of the form q = a + b i + c...
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  • In differential geometry, a quaternion-Kähler manifold (or quaternionic Kähler manifold) is a Riemannian 4n-manifold whose Riemannian holonomy group is...
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  • Hamilton invented quaternions, a mathematical entity in 1843. This article describes Hamilton's original treatment of quaternions, using his notation...
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  • Slerp (category Quaternions)
    spherical linear interpolation, introduced by Ken Shoemake in the context of quaternion interpolation for the purpose of animating 3D rotation. It refers to constant-speed...
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  • representing a rotation as numbers in a computer, some people prefer the quaternion representation or the axis+angle representation, because they avoid the...
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  • the study of functions with quaternions as the domain and/or range. Such functions can be called functions of a quaternion variable just as functions of...
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  • In differential geometry, a quaternion-Kähler symmetric space or Wolf space is a quaternion-Kähler manifold which, as a Riemannian manifold, is a Riemannian...
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    axis–angle representation. Other widely used methods include rotation quaternions, rotors, Euler angles, or rotation matrices. More specialist uses include...
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  • The exp, sqrt, and log complex quaternion functions are treated and then applied to obtain the general Lorentz transformation and obtain a simple technique...
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    Bench of the Rhine. The so-called imperial quaternions (German: Quaternionen der Reichsverfassung "quaternions of the imperial constitution"; from Latin...
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  • quaternion algebra to 2D geometry are discussed. At this present time, the article is focused on a 4-dimensional subalgebra of the dual quaternions which...
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  • The quaternion estimator algorithm (QUEST) is an algorithm designed to solve Wahba's problem, that consists of finding a rotation matrix between two coordinate...
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  • complex projective space, to the case where coordinates lie in the ring of quaternions H . {\displaystyle \mathbb {H} .} Quaternionic projective space of dimension...
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  • variants thereof, and the elements of {1, i, j, k} multiply as in the quaternion group and commute with their coefficients. There are three types of biquaternions...
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    (although, strictly speaking, it is a pseudovector). Matrices, versors (quaternions), and other algebraic things: see the section Linear and Multilinear...
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  • minimize the RMSD. Coutsias, et al. presented a simple derivation, based on quaternions, for the optimal solid body transformation (rotation-translation) that...
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  • The Hurwitz quaternion order is a specific order in a quaternion algebra over a suitable number field. The order is of particular importance in Riemann...
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